computer science - A Maze of Characters

I have a maze here with me. However, this maze is quite hard to see.

w
Q
q
#
2

ñ
ÿ

The bottom of the list of characters is the start of the maze. The top is the end.

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Answer

Converting these UTF-8 characters to binary gives the below 7x8 array of bits. Since the bottom is all ones, and you said start at the bottom, the intention must be that you can walk along ones while zeroes are walls. The solution is to stay in the third column from the left and head up, except to jog around a zero in the second row from the top.

01110111  
01010001  
01110001  
00100011  
00110010  
11110001  
11111111